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Ashlee Vance

Founder & Host, Core Memory · 2 appearances on the record.

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Ashlee Vance is a veteran technology journalist and author of the biographies Elon Musk and When the Heavens Went on Sale. A former writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times, he founded and hosts the frontier tech media company Core Memory.

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6 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ashlee argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Vance: George Hotz built a self-driving car alone in one month
“George Hotz built, like, a self-driving car on his own in, in, like, a month.”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 23:01 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ashlee Vance on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ashlee Vance said on Sourcery that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vance: SpaceX has lapped Blue Origin for 20 years, taking over rockets
“The difference between SpaceX and something like Blue Origin that started about the same time you know, I think Blue Origin's, like, coming on now, but they've had 20 years where SpaceX has just been lapping them, it's, like, taken over the entire rocket busin…”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 12:57 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Insight
Ashlee Vance: Worthwhile Hardware Breakthroughs Require 10 to 12 Years
“It seems like all the really good, the biggest things I've ever covered, they all take 10 to 12 years. I think Silicon Valley, sometimes you have this overnight sensation kind of thing where you see Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg turn up when they're 26 and the…”
Ashlee Vance Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 22:55 Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Vance: Bryan Johnson genuinely revels in public criticism rather than acting
“He was actually when I first met him, I mean, he was so, you know, the reputation was he was really sensitive to criticism and he was kind of like thin skinned and since he got famous, he just like revels at all these people crapping on him. And I don't actual…”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 16:31 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Opinion
Vance: Bryan Johnson genuinely understands the science behind longevity
“And so I think some people sometimes question like, Does he know the science at all? He, like, really does. I mean he can, like, it's impressive. He can talk at length about all this stuff.”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 21:29 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Insight
Vance: Quantum and fusion founders often overconvince themselves of their progress
“They're probably like the two areas where I feel the least comfortable trying to tell what's real from what's not real, because everybody's raised a ton of money, and it seems like serious people that are doing it, and they're smart people, and then you just c…”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 27:38 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vance: Fabricating qubits is now something almost every quantum startup can do
“Now it seems like just about everybody can, Make cubits. They can make quite a few of them.”
Ashlee Vance Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 2:02 Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Vance: One million physical qubits yield roughly one thousand useful logical qubits
“There's this weird thing with quantum computing where you have to use all these funky software techniques to do this error correction stuff, and so if you have a million qubits, it comes down to about, like, A thousand are really, really useful for what you're…”
Ashlee Vance Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 3:54 Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vance: Silicon Valley went from ignoring Bryan Johnson to actively seeking him out
“Like he used to come to Silicon Valley and nobody would meet with him and he could never raise money for everything. And then now I see him walk into these rooms and everyone's like wants to talk to Brian, but they also, they're all trying to learn how to live…”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 19:07 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Vance: George Hotz built a self-driving car alone in one month
“George Hotz built, like, a self-driving car on his own in, in, like, a month.”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 23:01 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vance: Musk Left Neuralink at 1 AM for xAI with a 4 AM Meeting
“We were at Neuralink filming something for a movie I'm making, and we were there until Like one in the morning, and then he went straight from there back to XAI. And then I had a friend who had a meeting with him at like four AM, I think.”
Ashlee Vance Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 10:45 Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'She Sep 11, 2025 11m
Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery Sep 8, 2025 19m
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